Fwd: (Incident Review ID: 403998) GETJAVA: comment: JRE for YellowDog Linux community

[Geert Janssens]

On Tuesday 24 May 2005 16:30, Hex Star wrote:
> recieved this message today finally from Sun Microsystems and thought
> you guys might find it interesting
>
Dear Mr Hex Star,

Have you verified the solution proposed by Sun ?

I haven't, but on the website they refer to, I only find a binary tar or rpm 
package that can be installed on Intel or Amd equiped PC's. I doubt it very 
much that this can be installed let alone be run on YDL PPC.

I don't think the good folks at Sun tried very hard to figure out what 
Yellowdog Linux was all about, especially that is runs on PPC only.

Maybe, you could explicitly mention that to them in a reply to your incident.

Then I'd like to see Sun's reaction. Chances are it will be total silence...

Cheers,

Geert

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> Hi John Musbach,
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> Thank you very much for your interest in Java(TM) technology. We
> apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused you.
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> We haven't received many requests for JRE for YellowDog Linux.
> Although we haven't tested, yet the existing version should work fow
> this platform too.
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> Can you try to download/install the existing JRE version for Linux from:
> http://java.com/en/download/help/5000010500.xml
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> category : getjava
> release : 5.0
> subcategory : comment
> type : bug
> synopsis : GETJAVA: comment:  JRE for YellowDog Linux community
> description : FULL PRODUCT VERSION :
> N/A
>
> FULL OS VERSION :
> YellowDog Linux4.0 PPC
>
> BROWSER VERSION:
> Opera 7.54 u1
>
> A DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM :
> Dear Sir or Maddam,
>
> I'd love to use Java on my platform but unfortunetly it isn't open
> source nor is there a build for my linux distro of YellowDog Linux
> (http://www.yellowdoglinux.com) :-(. So I was wondering, if I give you
> guys secure ssh access could you please build Java for my platform? Me
> and the rest of the YellowDog Linux community would greatly appreciate
> it. My email address is hexstar at gmail.com, I look forward to hearing
> back from you.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> John Musbach
> workaround :
> suggested_val :
> cust_name : John Musbach
> cust_email : hexstar at gmail.com
> jdcid :
> language : English
> keyword : getjava
> company : other
> hardware : x86
> OSversion : linux
> bugtraqID : 0
> dateCreated : 2005-02-23 13:06:38.8
> dateEvaluated : 2005-05-24 00:42:51.124
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